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Thursday, August 17, 2006
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The 1000 is a new ultra-portable model and with the supplied 6-cell battery weighs in at 1.75Kg ? not super light but not bad. However, when you realise that the DVD-ROM drive is not integrated ? it?s less impressive. When you consider that the likes of the Sony TX series and the Samsung Q35 are both ultra-light yet integrate an optical drive into their small chassis then alarm bells start to ring. Getting straight to the heart of the matter (or should that be heat of the matter), the reason is the choice processor. The 2GHz AMD Turion X2 ML-60 is AMD?s fastest dual-core mobile processor and as we?ll see it does offer impressive performance. However, the Thermal Design Power (TDP) is a hefty 35W compared to 31W for the competing Intel Core Duo. This is the most likely reason that Acer wasn?t able to fit an optical drive inside the chassis ? there wouldn?t have been enough room to cool the chip. An alternative would have been to use a slower processor but then Acer would hardly have been able to brand this as a Ferrari notebook.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
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As with other portable in-car sat-nav, the d150 is designed to work out of the box, However, it's certainly not as slick looking as its competitors. The housing is large, bulky and a frankly a bit ugly. The 3.5in, 320 x 240 resolution screen is surrounded by a seemingly oversized bezel, and the buttons on the fascia have a loose feel to them. In particular, the central joystick generally doesn't sit straight most of the time, which gives the whole thing a rather cheap feel to it...
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Sunday, March 19, 2006
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Acer seem to be on something of a roll of late with a range of great looking and equally great performing LCD screens and a lineup of notebooks that are at last gaining them the attention they've been deserving of for a while. The Acer Aspire 1691 WLMI I'm looking at today is a stripped down version which was actually being retailed through the Comet retail chain, though in reality just about all it was missing was a discrete ATi X600 graphics chip, now mostly replaced by the X700 in the current range...
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006
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The Acer CU-6530 is remarkable value for money, and compares favourably with many more expensive cameras in terms of both performance and picture quality. It is well made, attractively designed and has an above average specification. It also comes with a generous bundle of accessories, although the supplied 64MB card is very slow. All in all, a genuine bargain and an auspicious debut in the UK camera market for Acer...
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Monday, February 13, 2006
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To aspire, means to strive towards or to look up to, so it's quite appropriate that the 9504WSMi sits atop Acer's range of Aspire notebooks. As a flagship product with a powerful specification, the 9504 is something of a kitchen sink notebook, and can perform a large number of roles. It's undoubtedly a desktop replacement notebook aimed at entertainment with some business focused tools thrown in as well. You could argue that it lacks focus, but we all like to mix business and pleasure sometimes...
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Monday, January 16, 2006
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The Acer Ferrari F20 is undeniably a gorgeous monitor. It performs well, and the addition of a TV tuner makes it more flexible than your average LCD monitor. It's not as cheap as some competing displays, but the good looks and the badge on the front more than make up for this. Overall, it will make a well-performing, great-looking addition to the desktop of any style-conscious bit-tech reader...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
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The AL2416WS has a diagonal viewing area of 24in making it one of the big boys in the monitor arena, competing in particular with the Dell 24in panel, though that in itself has now been put in the shade by Dells' 30in screen. But with a native resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 there are still plenty of pixels to be getting excited about on this screen...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
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The TravelMate 8204WLMi is obviously based on the Napa platform, sporting a 2.0GHz dual core Yonah chip. Acer hasn't skimped on the supporting components either, throwing in 2GB of RAM and a 120GB hard disk. The graphics chipset is nearly as new as the CPU - I've only seen a demo notebook from ATI running the new X1600 chipset before, but the TravelMate is packing a production version complete with 256MB of video memory...
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Monday, November 21, 2005
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The Acer TravelMate C312XMi is the latest tablet PC from Acer. At first this looks like a pretty ordinary notebook with a 14.1in display that offers a native resolution of 1,024 x 768, not that remarkable these days. However, a closer look at the screen hinge hints that this is much more than a normal notebook. It's located in the middle of the base of screen and enables you to swing it around 180 degrees and lay it flat...
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Saturday, October 29, 2005
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It may be unspectacular, but as run-of-the-mill system's go, this is state-of-the-art. The 19in display at this price is a standout so if you're looking for a regular PC package, that's compact, attractive, and performs well, this is a great choice...
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Saturday, August 20, 2005
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The Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi notebook is powered by an AMD Turion64 ML-37 processor running at 2.0GHz, 1GB of DDR-333 system memory, an integrated ATI Mobility Radeon X700 video card with 128MB of dedicated video memory and a large 15.4" LCD screen. Storage comes care of a 2.5" 5400 RPM 100GB hard disk. Network connectivity goes in four directions, with a Gigabit Ethernet adaptor, 802.11G wireless, Bluetooth and a 56K modem all available to the user. The Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi measures 14.29" x 10.46" and about 1.36" thick. Without the battery it weighs in at 6.3lbs. Part of the top cover is made of real carbon fiber, lending the notebook a unique appearance and putting it in touch with its Ferrari heritage...
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Monday, August 8, 2005
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As with any Ferrari, what's going on under the bonnet is just as important as the way it looks on the outside, and Acer definitely hasn't cut any corners. If the last Ferrari notebook was a 360 Modena, this one is definitely an F430 - an improvement in every way, despite the previous model being far from disappointing. OK so the engine inside this F4000 may not be quite as intoxicating as the 4.3lt V8 in the F430, but the 1.8GHz AMD Turion ML-34 is pretty damn fast...
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Thursday, June 16, 2005
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The Acer 4401LMi is as we've grown accustomed to from Acer, a well put together notebook with a decent amount of connectivity. The X700 makes for a solid gaming machine, and the Turion processor impresses with its speed, but not with its battery performance. Ultimately, though it's the screen that disappoints slightly, with only average resolution and quality. With that in mind, I'd still recommend going for a Centrino based machine for work and something with a better screen for play.
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Friday, April 15, 2005
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GPS is a rapidly growing technology and we're starting to see a flurry of devices featuring the technology in one form or another. The Acer N35 is the second PDA I've looked at to feature a GPS receiver actually
integrated into the PDA, the first being the Mio 168. For the GPS enthusiast this is great as it avoids the need to have any trailing wires to an external GPS receiver or having to rely on a Bluetooth unit that
runs on batteries. While the Mio 168 used CoPilot as its navigation software, Acer has plumped for Destinator 3.
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Friday, February 4, 2005
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There's no getting away from the fact that the Acer AL2671W is a fantastic display. It's smart, easy-to-use, and delivers great picture quality. The caveats are having only two Scart connections, the lack of six-pin S-Video inputs, and the uncertainty over HDCP support. However, considering the fact that you'd normally expect to pay at least £200 more for an LCD TV of the same size, you've nevertheless got a product that offers astonishingly good value.
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